The Justice Committee also took evidence from former cabinet secretaries Lord Turnbull and Lord Butler, who said political parties should agree to a common set of principles setting out the constitutional conventions that would apply in the event of a hung parliament.

BBC: Justice Committee

The paper challenges the Scottish government to set out the cost of setting up and running a treasury, tax authority and central bank, a welfare structure, a foreign service, armed forces, an interior ministry to handle citizenship, immigration and border control, and regulators for issues including pensions, energy, telecommunications, health and safety, takeovers and advertising standards.

BBC: The Scottish Parliament

The Hutton inquiry, looking at the events leading up to the death of the 59-year-old Kelly, is set to begin Friday with a preliminary hearing setting out how Hutton intends to conduct the investigation.

CNN: Pressure on Hoon over Kelly chat

Clearly Sinha and her colleagues couldn't be out there with each person as he or she was relapsing, but they set out to replicate the behavior in a laboratory setting.

CNN: Stress may be causing your cravings

Mr Clegg set party activists a target of distributing three million leaflets setting out the "fairer" tax agenda by the end of the year, asking them to "do your bit the old-fashioned way".

BBC: Lib Dem conference: Stick to bargain, Clegg warns Tories

Mr Burley said he was setting up a working group of "local NHS experts and stakeholders to set out a way for the council to purchase at least 51% of the hospital estate".

BBC: Aidan Burley

That is not true, for just as the Pilgrims set their sights on the ocean horizon, and the settlers looked out across to the West and the setting sun, so C20 America and its citizens became pioneers into space.

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